Published June 15, 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

An ultra-broadband watt-level terahertz BWO based upon novel sine shape ridge waveguide

  • 1. National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Vacuum Electronics, School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054 (China)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747 (Korea, Republic of)

Description

A novel sine-shape ridge waveguide (SSRWG) is put forward to develop the ultra-broadband high power terahertz (THz) backward-wave oscillator (BWO). It is found that this kind of slow-wave structure (SWS) possesses very wide 'cold' bandwidth and quite low transmission losses from the analyses of the electromagnetic characteristics. Moreover, the beam-wave interaction results indicate that the BWO based upon the SSRWG SWS can produce the output power exceeding 0.625 W in the frequency range from 0.617 THz to 0.99 THz. In particular, the output power at the typical operating frequency of 0.853 THz can reach 1.186 W by using the sheet electron beam of 16 kV and 8 mA. Therefore, this device has great potential to be an ultra-broadband watt-level THz radiation source. (paper)

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/49/23/235102

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. D, Applied Physics
Journal Volume
49
Journal Issue
23
Journal Page Range
[6 p.]
ISSN
0022-3727
CODEN
JPAPBE

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
49019071
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ELECTRON BEAMS; OSCILLATORS; RADIATION SOURCES; SHAPE; SHEETS; THZ RANGE; TRANSMISSION; TUNGSTEN 186; WAVEGUIDES
Descriptors DEC
BEAMS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; FREQUENCY RANGE; HEAVY NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; LEPTON BEAMS; NUCLEI; PARTICLE BEAMS; STABLE ISOTOPES; TUNGSTEN ISOTOPES